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- Intent: To create a micro version of a previous missile, for ultralight vehicles, jetpacks, and similarly-scaled platforms.
- Image Source: 3D Sci-Fi Missiles X9 Package - Cordy
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions:
- FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System (N/A)
- FAE/S-06 Reactive Targeting Matrix (N/A)
- ‘Myrmidon’ Combat AI (Open-Market)
- Fyrirdögun (Open-Market)
- Iadrium (Open-Market)
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
- Affiliation:
- First United Astral Engineering
- Exclusive Writers and/or Buyers - Marketplace Purchase, Vault Purchase or Direct Permission
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Modularity: Yes
- Explosive Type
- Launch Platform
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Fyrirdögun Coating
- Duranium Construction
- Organoform Circuitry
- Reinforced Duraplast
- Faraday Cage Construction
- Misc. Missile Components and Materials
- Classification: Small Craft / Vehicle Grade Missile - Micro Size
- Size: Extremely Small
- Length: 17 cm
- Diameter: 5 cm
- Weight: Extremely Light
- Explosive Type:
- Delivery Method: Self-Propelled
- Effective Range: Point Blank - 2 km in Atmosphere
- Area Of Effect: Point Blank
- Damage Output: Low
- Oversight and Administration
- Computer Brain Module - Loaded with ‘Myrmidon’ Combat AI
- Various “Loyalty Assurance Protocols” and “Agonizer Circuits”
- Computer Brain Module - Loaded with ‘Myrmidon’ Combat AI
- Data and Information Security
- Pyrowall
- Quantum Processing and Data Management
- Ghostwave
- Genetic Code, Retinal, and Dermatoglyphic Verification
- Bio-Hexacrypted Systems
- Power and Propulsion
- Hybrid Ion / Repulsorlift / Electromotive Field Engine
- Defensive Systems
- Utility Systems
- FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System
- Targeting Sensors
- Targeting Protocols
- Active Radar Homing
- Radiation Homing Protocols - Capable of Homing in Directly on Sources of Jamming/Radiation
- Capable of Independently Tracking and Acquiring Targets
- Proportional Pursuit - Typically Tracks Target Vector, rather than Target Itself
- If Used in a Fighter or Flying Vehicle, Engine and Targeting Systems can Delay Activation to Conceal Exact Location of Launch Platform
- All-Aspect Capability
- Optional MCLOS (Manual Command to Line of Sight) Guidance Mode
- Anti-Telekinetic Redirect Detonation Protocol - Upon registering an Foreign Influence shifting its Course, the Missile will Explode.
- Active Radar Homing
- Storm Surge - Owing to a comprehensive data and information security suite, a semi-sentient droid brain, and the offensive retention system, the missiles are quite resistant to ECM, electromagnetic bursts, slicing attempts, and many forms of electronic warfare which rely on tricking or deceiving their systems.
- Expedited Delivery - Much like a proton torpedo, the missile is rated for accelerations over 10,000 G, allowing it to make a 90-degree turn within a turning radius of less than a decimeter. Accordingly, it goes without saying that the missile is very fast and agile.
- Smart Missiles - Equipped with Brilliant tracking protocols, target imaging, and an electro photo receptor, the missiles are capable of tracking targets with such creativity, aggression, and intelligence that they could be considered semi-sentient. They are capable of reaching targets behind cover or obstructions. In addition, they have a limited, conditional ability to evade defensive fire by taking swerving, erratic trajectories towards their target.
- Spectrum Lock - The missiles use a multi-spectrum target locking system, meaning that if one sensor or receptor type is blinded or confused by the deployment of countermeasures, it can switch to another on the fly.
- Anti-Infantry - While the FAE/WH-03 is weak in the context of armored warfare and small craft dogfights, it is still very capable at engaging smaller targets the likes of infantry, droids and ultralight vehicles. As pertaining to the former two target categories, the warhead might retain a degree of overkill potential, allowing the FAE/WH-03 to fit solidly into an anti-infantry and anti-droid role.
- Reinforced - The missiles project an energy envelope around themselves when in flight which functions as a low-powered deflector shield, providing the warheads with limited protection against point-defense fire, while also augmenting their aerodynamic performance. In addition, organoform circuitry, combat de-ionizers, and spare capacitors provide the missile a measure of redundancy to help it withstand EMP/Ion discharges and electrical/technology-draining effects.
- Active Homing - The use of active sensor pings means that the missile might trigger electronic warning systems, giving a targeted unit a small window of time to take defensive action.
- Double Blade - Since it goes without saying that missiles explode, a penetrating shot to the missile magazines of a host unit might very well have catastrophic effects, especially since the energy envelope projectors do not activate until the missiles are launched.
- Vehicular Warfare - Due largely to its small frame, the FAE/WH-03 struggles against armored vehicles and fighters.
- Mechu-deru - Like any piece of technology, the missiles are susceptible to mechu-deru and other technology-twisting powers. A talented practitioner of such esoteric sorceries could induce a premature explosion or some other mechanical failure that might compromise the warhead entirely or demand precious time to reboot, leaving the operator vulnerable.
- Pressor - Pressor fields can push the missile off-target, possibly damaging them from the shock or even causing the warhead to prematurely detonate.
- Warhead Types - The explosive/warhead type can easily be switched from one missile to another by trained technicians while the missile is in storage, but this can not be done while the missile is loaded into a magazine. In essence, once the missile is loaded into a launch system its explosive type can not be changed unless it is removed.
- Particle Shields - Unexploded, the missile is unable to penetrate most particle shields, meaning that it will have to rely on the energy output of its detonation to achieve that.
The FAE/WH-03 Variable Payload Missile - Micro is the smallest missile in First United Astral Engineering’s line of vehicle-grade missiles. Designed to be compatible with ultralight vehicles such as speeder bikes, swoops, and even jetpacks, the WH-03 is intended to give these platforms a dainty, yet powerful punch against targets the likes of infantry, light vehicles, and non-reinforced structures. These missiles are also capable of being used in a point-defense role for larger platforms.
Due to its small size, FAE/WH-03 is inferior in terms of range, blast radius, and potential damage output than its sister models—the WH-02 and the WH-01. Such compromises were unavoidable. Nevertheless, the WH-03 is quite formidable against most anti-missile systems and is a useful weapon in most battlespace contexts.
With the relative success of the WH-01 and the WH-02, the designers of the WH-03 anticipate that the missile will prove just as productive and popular with First United Astral Engineering’s client base.
